{"id":12044,"date":"2018-11-21T09:16:11","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12044"},"modified":"2018-11-21T09:16:11","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T14:16:11","slug":"the-use-of-telehealth-services-by-medicare-beneficiaries-is-increasing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=12044","title":{"rendered":"The use of telehealth services by Medicare beneficiaries is increasing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000; font-family: Calibri;\">The use of telehealth services by Medicare beneficiaries is increasing; however, it is limited significantly by numerous legal barriers. According to a new report, approximately 90,000 Medicare beneficiaries used more than 275,000 telehealth services as recently as 2016, but the overall totals represent a significantly small percentage of total beneficiaries who number 35 million individuals altogether. <a href=\"https:\/\/healthpayerintelligence.com\/news\/regulatory-changes-needed-to-expand-medicare-telehealth-use\">Read article here\u2026<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11020\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/senior-woman-frustrated-concerned-help-700x467.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The use of telehealth services by Medicare beneficiaries is increasing; however, it is limited significantly by numerous legal barriers. According<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medicare-general","category-telehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12044"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12045,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12044\/revisions\/12045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}